A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Song of Songs
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph Kaufman

Cast: Elsie Ferguson [Lily Kardos], Frank Losee [Senator Calkins], Crauford Kent [Dick Laird], Cecil Fletcher [Stephen Bennett], Gertrude Berkeley [Mrs. Kardos], Corinne Uzzell [Ann Merkle], Charles Wellesley [Mr. Atwell], Henry Leone [Anselm Kardos], Robert Cummings [Phineas Bennett], Ned Burton

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Scenario by Charles Maigne, from the play adaptation The Song of Songs by Edward Sheldon of the novel Das Hohe Lied (The Song of Songs) by Hermann Sudermann. Cinematography by William Marshall. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 2 February 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12024]. Released 11 February 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Lily of the Dust (1924).

Drama: Society.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.